Test 10 · Walking away
Your friend walked away from a fight everyone was egging on. What can you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, everyone, you · What happens: walk away, egg on, do · To what, where: fight
This is test 10 of lesson 371 «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Your friend walked away from a fight everyone was egging on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 egging | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 egging | aux |
| 10 | egging | egg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fight | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 egging | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | Your friend | a fight | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fight=Source | |||
| 2 | egg on | past · progressive | everyone | a fight not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What can you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Start the fight for them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Start | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Start | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | the fight | for them = they | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Say «nice one» and walk with them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walk | cc |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nice one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | you not said here | with them = they | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Call them chicken with the others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Call | obj |
| 3 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Call | xcomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 others | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 others | det |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Call | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | them = they | with the others | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
Option 4
Tell everyone they were scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | they | scared property | tree rules |
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